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Quick tip. If you lose your Vagrant mounts after kernel upgrades in your virtualbox, you'll need to reinstall your VirtualBox Guest Additions. Same is true when you upgrade Vagrant, etc.

Ubuntu Vagrant Virtualbox Virtualization

If you use EC2 you may have heard of Tim Kay's aws commandline tool. It provides access to most of Amazon's API and is less cumbersome than Amazon's own CLI utilities in day to day use.

Bash Cronlock Crontab Solo Timkay

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If you've written a webapp and you want to ensure that critical parts such as the signup process stay working, the best would be to have an actual user go through that process every time you change your codebase. But...

Campfire Casperjs Ci Coffeescript Homebrew Javascript Nodejs Npm Osx Testing Ubuntu

PHP's strrev is not safe to use on utf-8 strings because it reverses a string one byte at a time. So if a character consists of multiple bytes it cannot be preserved as an entity in the reversed result.

Multibyte Performance Php Utf8